The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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On-screen title card.
Network NBC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Original release September 15, 1968February 23, 1969
Starring Michael Shea
LuAnn Haslam
Kevin Schultz
Ted Cassidy
Dorothy Tennant
Anne Bellamy
Producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Music composed by Ted Nichols
Director(s) Hollingsworth Morse
Bruce Bilson
Walter S. Burr
Byron Haskin
Robert Gist
Ezra Stone

The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American live-action/animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series originally aired on NBC, it ran from 1968 to 1969, airing 20 episodes that spanned one season.

The series followed Huckleberry Finn, and his friends, Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher who, after escaping from the clutches of Injun Joe through a cavern, end up stuck in an animated world full of dangers, in which they would usually run into a villain with malicious intentions.

The entire series has been released on DVD.

Production

Development

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Episodes

Title Number Original air date
"The Magic Shillelah" 1x01 September 15, 1968
"Huck of La Mancha" 1x02 September 22, 1968
"The Terrible Tempered Kahleef" 1x03 September 29, 1968
"The Little People" 1x04 October 6, 1968
"Pirate Island" 1x05 October 13, 1968
"The Last Labor of Hercules" 1x06 October 20, 1968
"The Gorgon's Head" 1x07 October 27, 1968
"Castle of Evil" 1x08 November 3, 1968
"Hunting the Hunter" 1x09 November 24, 1968
"The Curse of Thut" 1x10 December 1, 1968
"The Ancient Valley" 1x11 December 15, 1968
"Menace in the Ice" 1x12 December 22, 1968
"The Eye of Doorgah" 1x13 December 29, 1968
"Mission of Captain Mordecai" 1x14 January 5, 1969
"The Jungle Adventure" 1x15 January 19, 1969
"Son of the Sun" 1x16 January 26, 1969
"Prophecy of Peril" 1x17 February 2, 1969
"Strange Experiment" 1x18 February 9, 1969
"The Conquistador Curse" 1x19 February 16, 1969
"All Whirlpools Lead to Atlantis" 1x20 February 23, 1969

Cast